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Whats so bad about old harddware? I rather like my little tablet quite alot and it has EXCELLENT battery life unlike my AMD heater laptop. Its not fast on the internet or anything but that said its excellent for a small portable teminal with wifi and such... just cause it's old doesn't mean it isn't good.

The P1120 has an R100 limited vram and a slow graphics bus but that said its still pretty neat. Also I have a radeon 9800SE/LE in my Tyan 2xPII@300Mhz its rather fun to boot up once in awhile as well.. just cause it's old doesn't mean someone isn't using it. The Tyan is actually rather usable even runs compiz quite nicely browsing is a tad sluggish though been waiting around awhile to see if MESA ever becomes less CPU bound as thats a major hindrance @300Mhz

Nice to see improvements on these old GPU too!
At work there is still many computers with Radeon 7000 card (Pentium 4 ~3000 MHz, 512 Mo). It's sufficient for Windows XP + office suite. There will be converted in Linux thinclient by time.

My brothers laptop is still running a Radeon 9200 in it as is one of our desktop machines and an old machine we are currently using with a capture card to function as a television. So I am for one happy to see theses guys still being worked on, and I still have many fond memories of my own experiences with these cards on my own desktop from about three-four years ago.

This is not a total surprise though, as it was mentioned that these cards could receive some love since one of the things that was slowing down progress was the fact they still had to support the DRI1 infrastructure. That was of course dropped a couple months ago and now they can add certain features to the KMS drivers such as colour titling. Still nice to see it actually happening though.

I tried to fix graphics in Rayman 2 which set manual fog coordinates and reach to demos/fogcoord which also doesn't work... and succeed piglit/ext_coord is good now...
probable radeon needs this fix too.